Baby+Company today announced the opening of its new boutique birth center in Wheat Ridge, CO in collaboration with Lutheran Medical Center and Westside Women’s Care. The center is conveniently located within blocks of Lutheran, and a short distance from the Highlands. The birth center will serve Denver, Wheat Ridge, Littleton, Boulder and the surrounding areas.
For women seeking an alternative to a hospital-based birth, Baby+Company is a new option for maternity care in the Denver Area. The Baby+Company experience brings together the best elements of a highly personalized birth center experience along with the benefits of working in collaboration with a leading local medical center that has a long history of excellence in women's services. Certified Nurse Midwives will provide education-intensive, relationship-based care in a comfortable environment, while Lutheran will help to ensure that additional services are available during pregnancy or delivery. Physicians from Westside Women’s Care are serving as consultants and are available for clinical consultation and back-up support.
Clinical services at Baby+Company include: pre-conception, pre-natal, labor and delivery, postpartum, and newborn care as well as annual exams and birth control. The center offers water birth and a variety of pain management tools during labor, including nitrous oxide. Clinical care is complemented by a complete wellness and educational program open to all new and expectant families, including: childbirth and newborn care education, nutritional counseling, pre- and post-natal yoga, new mom groups and more.
Lutheran, located less than half a mile from the birth center, is recognized as one of the top 100 hospitals nationally for quality patient care by Healthgrades®. As a full-service, acute-care hospital, Lutheran offers premier women’s healthcare services including five-star labor and delivery suites.
Baby+Company will host an open house on May 30th, from 12-4p.m., to provide the public with an opportunity to tour the center and meet the Baby+Company midwives.
Cara Osborne, Chief Clinical Officer for Baby+Company, cited personalized care, low intervention rates, and the peaceful, family friendly environment as reasons that women choose to give birth at Baby+Company. “We want Baby+Company to be a place where women and families who are interested in having an out of hospital birth can come to have the personalized, intimate experience that they want, inside of a fully equipped medical facility. We are thrilled to partner with a leading provider in women’s services, Westside Women’s Care, to expand women’s choices for high quality maternity care, and ensure that we can offer seamless access to Lutheran Medical Center and other services for our patients. Together with our partner, we are working to improve clinical outcomes for women and babies, and to offer a wide range of support for families as they enter a new stage of life."
“Lutheran looks forward to collaborating with Baby+Company to provide greater choice to women and families in our community,’ said Grant Wicklund, Lutheran President and CEO. “We have developed a premier women’s care program and want to help ensure that every woman receives the highest quality of care.”
“Baby+Company provides high quality, evidenced-based care in an intimate family-centered environment,” said Dr. Doug Minton, practicing OB/GYN at Westside Women’s Care and a consulting Physician for Baby+Company. “By working closely with Westside Women’s Care, women have the added security of having rapid access to a leading physician group and hospital.”
Baby+Company’s center is located at 7777 West 38th Ave in Wheat Ridge.
About Baby + Company
Baby+Company owns and operates boutique maternity centers, designed for women who seek an alternative to a hospital-based birth. Our mission is to expand women’s choices through care that supports, educates, and celebrates the wellness of pregnancy. Our centers combine the highest quality clinical care, the service levels of a boutique hotel and the best comforts of home.
Clinical excellence and safety are first and foremost. Clinical care is led by our Certified Nurse Midwives with clinical consultation from carefully selected local physician partners. Our Midwives provide highly personalized care and are available 24x7 in person, via email, or for scheduled mobile video appointments. Baby+Company partners with leading hospitals and health systems to provide a seamless transition to medical services as needed, ensuring continuity of care for our patients before, during and after birth.
Expectant or new moms can access a variety of additional services at Baby+Company all designed around them, including: scheduled video appointments, shared health records available on the web or mobile which the patient not only contributes to, but owns after delivery, and a library of educational content. We offer a retail selection of carefully curated goods, and a full range of wellness and educational services including: childbirth and newborn education, pre and postnatal yoga, nutritional counseling, new mom discussion groups, lactation support and more.
About Lutheran Medical Center
Lutheran Medical Center is a community-based, 338-bed acute-care hospital located in Wheat Ridge, CO. Local and national ratings organizations regularly recognize Lutheran for clinical excellence, patient safety and patient experience.
Lutheran’s premier services include a five-star birthing center, Heart and Neurovascular Center, robotic surgery, Primary Stroke Center, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Orthopedics, a Level III Trauma Center and emergency services including the first Senior Emergency Room in Colorado. Senior-focused services also include Senior Behavioral Health and a Senior Surgery Center. Lutheran operations include West Pines, Lutheran Hospice, Bridges Health and Wellness and Colorado Lutheran Home and Apartments. To learn more, visit www.lutheranmedicalcenter.org.
Lutheran is owned by SCL Health System, a faith-based, nonprofit healthcare organization that operates eight hospitals, more than 190 ambulatory service centers, home healthcare and safety net services in three states — Colorado, Kansas and Montana.
About Westside Women’s Care
Westside Woman's Care offers comprehensive obstetrics and gynecology services for woman of all ages- from pre-teens and adult women in midlife transition and senior women. We are dedicated to excellence in health care combined with an eye towards cost-effectiveness and state-of-the-art technology. We offer a wide range of obstetrical and gynecological services with the goal of keeping you healthy at each stage of womanhood so that you can always be your best. Our services include: pre-pregnancy planning; basic infertility; prenatal care; 24 hour labor and delivery support at Exempla Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge; birth control; menopause symptom control; hormone replacement therapy and minimally invasive surgery. Our goal is to be your active health care partner, helping you to prevent problems from developing, whenever possible. We provide 24/7 emergency coverage and always are available for emergent office visits during the work week. Patient education is a significant part of our practice. We want you to be well-informed consumers of healthcare so that you can make the best possible health care and lifestyle choices. We will act as your guide in the process, taking the time to explain anything that you don't understand. To learn more, visit www.westsidewomenscare.com
For more information, visit www.babyandcompany.com/wheatridge or email info@babyandcompany.com
To register for the open house visit http://info.babyandcompany.com/openhouse.
